INDEX

agrégation, 30, 33–4, 39, 61, 62 Baudrimont, Ernest, 64

Almeida, Joseph-Charles d’, 38–9, 88 Béchet jeune, 37, 63
America Becquerel, Antoine César & Edmond, 75–6,
North, 12, 18, 40, 75, 136, 138, 130, 138,
151–2 Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette, 17
Spanish, 138, 140 Bertin, Pierre-Auguste, 177
Anderson, Robert, 44 Bertomeu, José R., 17
Andrews, Thomas, 165, 206–8 Best, Jean, 95, 100–2

Copyright
Anglican, 44–5
appropriation, 6, 7–8, 16, 21
Arago, François, 123, 125
Aran, Dr, 202
Archer, Margaret, 44
Arnott, Neil, 48, 102, 145–6, 150–1, 155,
158, 180,
Association Philotechnique, 64, 69
Association Polytechnique, 64
Atkinson, Edmund, 2, 11, 12, 41–2, 45–7,
51, 57, 59–60, 76–89, 142, 146, 149,
185, 204, 217
authorship, 3, 5, 28, 36, 68–74, 82–6
baccalauréat ès-lettres, 27, 30, 31, 32, 61,
107, 171
baccalauréat ès-sciences, 25, 27–35, 38, 39,
61, 63, 64, 68, 71, 93, 112, 113, 139, 171,
174, 175–7
Baillière, Germer, 75, 139, 143, 147
Baillière, Hippolyte, 11, 12, 51, 77, 80–2,
87–9, 94, 136, 138, 139–47, 149, 150,
151, 172, 180, 187, 204
Baillière, Jean-Baptiste, 38, 97, 135, 138,
139–40, 142, 143, 144, 147
Bailly-Baillière, Charles, 139
Barrett, William Fletcher, 84, 164
Baudrimont, Alexandre-Edouard, 62–6, 98
Bibliothèque des Merveilles, 102, 104, 190
bifurcation, 27–8, 31–2, 38–9, 64, 67, 69,
114
Biot, Jean-Baptiste, 29, 36, 48, 62, 102, 111,
118, 119, 138
Bird, Golding, 48, 102, 145–6, 155, 158,
180, 182, 184
Birmingham, 45, 193
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 193, 197–8
Blum, Johann, Reinhard, 78
Boffe, J. de, 137
Bohn, Henry George, 154
Bohn, Johann Conrad, 88
Bois Reymond, Emil du, 203
Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon, 27, 36
booksellers, 5, 6, 8, 23, 39, 67, 91, 135–47,
172, 188
Boosey, John, 137
Bordeaux, 64, 98, 135
Bossange, 138
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 141
Bouchardat, Apollinaire, 63,
Bourbon-Vendée, 61
Boutan, Augustin, 38–9, 88
Bréguet firm, 116, 124, 201
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham, 14
Brewster, David, 58
Bridgewater Treatises, 14

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British Medical Association, 180 99, 113, 120–1, 126, 129, 133, 135,
British Museum, 141 137–42, 173, 189, 213, 215–17
Brodie, Benjamin, 78 comparative and cross-national history, 4, 8,
Brongniart, Alexandre, 124 9, 19–21, 214, 216–17
Buckmaster, Charles, 53, 145–6 Conseil de l’instruction publique, 26–7,
Bunsen, Robert, 78, 87, 88, 130, 164, 29–31, 37, 67, 175
199–200 Constables, 137
Constitution of Man, 14
Cabinet Cyclopaedia, 40, 49, 150 Cooper, James Davis, 155
Calcutta, 178 Crookes, William, 15, 45, 47, 204–6
Cambridge University, 25, 42, 43–4, 45, Cross, Nigel, 5
46–7, 53, 182, 184
Catalan, Eugène, 37–8 Daguin, Pierre-Adolphe, 38, 39, 88, 175
centre-periphery model, 4, 6, 7 Darwin, Charles, 14, 141, 142
Chambers, Robert, 14, 16, 157 Davy, Humphrey, 124
Charente inférieure, 61 Déguin, Nicolas, 35, 39
Chartier, Roger, 7 Deslechamps, Dr, 76
Charton, Edouard, 101–4, 190 Despretz, Cësar, 35, 62, 68, 69, 70, 72, 76,
Cheltenham College, 46, 77, 79, 80, 86, 184, 111, 113, 118, 119
185 Didot, Firmin, 92–4, 101, 150

Copyright
Chemical Society, 59, 60, 79–80, 82, 141,
143, 164, 204,
chemistry, 2, 3–4, 11, 17, 21, 26, 28, 30, 31,
33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 48, 55, 57, 60, 63–4,
66, 69, 77–9, 82, 87–8, 90, 110, 111,
116, 123–4, 139, 141, 143, 147, 156–7,
164–5, 167, 192, 195, 199, 203, 204,
205, 213, 215
Churchill, John, 48, 141, 146
circulation, 3, 4, 6–7, 8, 9, 15, 21, 35, 37, 41,
86, 99, 108, 115, 135–8, 146–7,
City and Guilds Finsbury Technical College,
54
Clarendon Press, 46, 52
Clausius, Rudolf, 76, 160
Claye, Jules, 92–7, 153
Clowes, William, 154
collective, 7–8, 18, 20, 25, 31, 33, 55, 103,
116, 178, 186–8, 210, 215–16
Collège de France, 62, 123, 202, 207
College of Preceptors, 53–4
Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, 34, 36–7,
200
Combe, George, 14
common writer, 5
communication, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 11, 15, 17,
19, 21, 24, 40, 58, 70, 73, 74, 80, 91–2,
diffusion, 3
discipline, 1–2, 3, 4–5, 8, 9, 14, 15–21,
23–6, 28–9, 40–2, 46, 55, 57, 58, 65, 75,
109, 118, 119, 121, 147, 169, 195, 210,
213–5, 217
Dodds, William, 182–3
Doré, Gustave, 104
Drion, Charles, 38, 111
Drummond, Henry, 193, 197–8
Duboscq, Jules, 115, 199–200
Duchenne, Dr, 75, 132
Duhem, Pierre, 19
Dujardin, Louis, 104, 108
Dulau & Co., 137
Dulong, Pierre-Louis, 123–5, 165
Dumas, Jean-Baptiste, 31–2, 35, 69, 114,
116
Durham, 45
École centrale des arts et manufactures,
35–6, 64, 69, 93, 123
École normale, 27–9, 31–40, 47, 55, 76, 113
École polytechnique, 27, 29–31, 33, 37–8,
39, 63, 64, 65, 69, 113, 123, 177–8, 187
École de Saint-Cyr, 65, 69
Edinburgh, 52, 137, 141, 182, 185, 197
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Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, 40
Everett, Joseph David, 41, 157
examinations, 23–7, 30–2, 34, 39, 41–55,
61–5, 70–1, 79, 85–6, 113, 117, 121–2,
152, 155, 157–8, 172–4, 176–7, 182–7,
193, 204, 210
Falloux law, 27, 39, 64, 96
Faraday, Michael, 53, 116, 128, 130
Fernet, Émile, 38, 111
Ferranti, Sebastian de, 11, 15, 203, 206,
208–9
Figuier, Louis, 193
Flammarion, Camille, 12, 190–1
Fleck, Ludwik, 21, 84, 173, 208
form and meaning, 3, 5, 7, 8, 16, 91–2, 149, Henderson, W. J., 196–7
171
Foster, George Carey, 50, 60, 78, 79, 82, 156, Hildibrand, 104
Foucault, Léon, 115, 175, 188–90
Foucault, Michel, 14
Copyright
Fournier, Henri, 93, 96
Fox, Robert, 20, 118
Francis, William, 75, 78–80, 82
Frankland, Edward, 45, 47, 77, 78, 88
Franklin, Benjamin, 128–9, 168
Fresnel, Augustin, 114, 120, 126, 160
Fyfe, Aileen, 17
Gagniet, Jules, 104, 108
Galison, Peter, 4, 7
Ganot, Adolphe, 2, 11–12, 28, 39, 53, 55,
57–9, 60–76
García-Belmar, Antonio, 17
Gay-Lussac, Louis-Josep, 36, 123, 124, 125,
177
geography, 4, 6, 7, 65, 136
Germany, 18, 19, 20, 32, 40, 41, 48, 50, 60,
77, 78, 82, 88,140, 160
global, 7–8
Göttingen University, 78
Gramme, Zénobe, 15, 131, 200–1
Great Exhibition, 32, 42, 92, 96, 139
Gregory, Olinthus, 47
Groombridge & Sons, 54
Grosselin, Augustin, 36
Grove, William, 76, 130, 197
Guiguet, 104
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Guillemin, Amédée, 193
Guthrie, Frederick, 47, 53, 78, 79, 82, 89,
155–6, 161, 165, 182
Guy’s Hospital, 48–9
Hachette, Louis, 35, 37, 38, 39, 58, 94, 102,
104, 108, 122, 135, 143, 155, 190,
Harding, Thomas Olver, 50
Harris, William Snow, 128, 167
Harvard College, 40
Haüy, René-Juste, 29, 33, 48, 102, 110, 118,
138
Heidelberg University, 78
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 18, 60, 82, 89,
160–1
Highley, Samuel, 141, 154
Hirst, Thomas Archer, 78, 80
historical change, 3–4, 20
Hogg, Jabez, 48–9, 146, 154–5, 158, 161
Holmes, Frederick L., 169, 206
Horne, Fallon, 142, 206, 208
Hunt, Robert, 154–5, 161, 195
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 47, 52, 80, 195, 197
Illustrated London News, 102, 154
illustration, 99–109, 154–6
India, 12, 136, 150, 151
individual, 7–8
industrialists, 25, 29, 30, 35
Ingram, Cooke & Co., 154
invention, 1, 4, 37, 69, 74, 84, 105, 114, 190,
194, 201
Ireland, 50, 136, 150
Irish Board of National Education, 150
Izarn, Joseph, 26
Jamin, Jules, 88, 111
Jolly, Phillip, 78, 88
Joule, James, 114, 126, 160–1, 164, 166
Kaemtz, Ludwig, 75
Kaiser, David, 16–17
Keller, Jean Gerber, 201–2
Knight, Charles, 97, 102
Kolbe, Hermann, 88–9
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Kuhn, Thomas S., 8, 14, 15–16, 19–20, 118,
133, 216
Ladd, William, 84, 116, 200
Lafont, 178
La Fontaine, 12
Lakanal, Joseph, 28
Langlebert, Joseph-Edmond, 28, 38, 175–6
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 123–4
Laplacian programme, 18, 20, 118–21, 160,
161
Laplante, Charles, 104
Lardner, Dionysius, 48–50, 145–6, 150–1,
154–5, 157–8, 161, 181, 184
Latin, 26, 30, 43
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, 123–4
Ledeboer, Pierre Hugo, 58–9, 71–2, 174,
177
Leeds, 41, 179, 184
Leipzig, 136, 138, 142, 144
Copyright
Lepage, Constant, 100–1, 105, 200
Lerebours et Secretan, 125
Leslie, John, 124, 206
Lewes, George Henry, 195
Library of Useful Knowledge, 40, 102, 154
Lightman, Bernard, 17
Lissajous, Jules-Antoine, 115
Liverpool, 45, 141, 185
Liverpool and Manchester Photographic
Society, 141
local, 6–8, 18, 65, 68, 89, 115, 131, 135, 202
Lockyer, Joseph Normal, 181, 184
Lodge, Oliver, 183, 185
London, 77, 80, 83, 84, 104, 115, 126, 131,
136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 147,
150, 155, 172, 182, 183, 189, 199, 200.
208
King’s College, 44, 184
Matriculation examination, 42, 44, 49,
52, 54,157, 182, 183, 185, 194
Science Class-Books, 155–6
University College, 44, 48, 49, 60
University of, 25, 42–3, 47, 50, 52, 53,
54, 86
Longman, Charles James, 89, 150, 152
Longman, Thomas Norton, 60, 88, 150
Longman, William, 150
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Longmans (firm), 11–12, 48–54, 82, 84, 87,
88, 89, 94, 146, 147, 149, 150–6, 160,
161, 169, 170, 172, 182, 193, 196, 204,
214, 215
Lovering, Joseph, 40, 48
Macmillan (firm), 52–4
Madrid, 136, 139, 142
Magasin pittoresque, 92, 95, 100–4, 108,
138, 156, 190
Malus, Étienne, 114
Mame, Alfred, 92–3, 96–9, 108
Manchester, 45, 77, 141
Manchester Literary and Philosophical
Society, 141
Maneuvrier, Georges, 58, 173
Marburg University, 77, 78, 80, 88
Marcet, Jane, 150
marketplace, 7, 12, 17, 23–4, 26–7, 35, 37,
39–40, 47–52, 62, 64, 67–8, 71, 74, 86,
89–90, 109, 141, 146, 150
Marlborough College, 46, 50, 181, 184
Martin, Dr, 84
Mascart, Eleuthère, 82, 88, 89
Masson, Victor, 38, 97–8, 135
mathematics, 26, 28–31, 33, 40, 43, 48,
52, 54, 55, 57, 61–5, 70, 72, 78, 80, 84,
89–90, 110, 111, 114, 116–17, 132, 156,
162, 169, 178, 182, 187, 191, 193, 213–15
mathematization, 119, 163, 211, 214, 216
Matteucci, Carlo, 75
Maxwell, James Clerk, 18–9, 185
May, Guillaume-Ernest, 176–7
Mayer, Julius, 114, 160
McGauley, James Williams, 150
Medico-Chirurgical Society, 141
Melbourne, 136, 139, 146
Meldola, Raphael, 206
Melloni, Macedonio, 120, 124, 130, 206
Merz, Theodore, 19
Meunier, Victor, 191, 201
Microscopical Society, 142
Moigno, François-Napoléon, 58–9, 69–71,
75–6, 87, 126, 142, 172–8, 188–9, 191,
199–201
Montrouge, 59
Morus, Iwan, 5, 20
Müller, Hugo, 60
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Müller, Johan, 51, 53, 88, 143–4, 150,
municipal, 25, 30, 46–7
Negretti & Zambra, 125
Nesbit, Antony, 45
Nesbit, John Collis, 45
New York, 104, 136, 139, 146, 151
Newth, Samuel, 145–6
Niaudet-Breguet, Alfred, 200–1
normaliens, 27–9, 33–40, 55, 58, 61, 62, 64,
67, 69, 88, 143, 177
origins, 3, 4, 8
Origins of Species, 14
Owens College, 44, 47, 52, 77–8
Oxford and Cambridge Locals, 42, 46, 53,
157, 172
Oxford University, 25, 42, 43–4, 46–7, 52,
78, 150, 184
Page, Charles, 116
Copyright
Paris, Faculty of sciences, 29, 31, 34, 36, 58,
61, 111, 176
Pasteur, Louis, 33–4
Péclet, Eugène, 35–9, 62, 69, 70, 72, 76, 111,
114, 118, 119, 138
Penny Magazine, 40, 97, 102, 138, 154, 156
Periodization, 1, 4, 19, 20, 119
Peschel, Carl Friedrich, 50–1, 150
Petit, Alexis-Thérèse, 123–5, 165
Phillips, Richard, 14
Philosophical Magazine, 60, 75–6, 78–80, 87
Physical Society, 47, 59, 60, 77, 82
physics
as a discipline, 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 16,
18–21, 23, 28, 57–60, 75, 89–90,
109, 118–21, 132–3, 147, 168–170,
210, 213–17
twentieth-century, 4
Pinaud, Auguste, 35, 39, 119
Poggendorff, Johann, 75, 79, 88
Poincaré, Léon, 202–3
Poisson, Siméon-Denis, 31
Poitiers, 61, 98
Polytechniciens, 29, 124, 178, 195, 201
‘popular’, the, 7, 12, 14, 20, 40–1, 48, 73, 82,
152, 173, 185, 189, 193–4, 196, 205, 208
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popularization, 1–2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 25,
48, 74, 75, 173, 179, 188–94, 201, 210
Portefeuille industriel, 37, 71, 93, 101
Portsmouth Free Library, 196
Pouillet, Claude, 35–9, 48, 50, 51, 62,
69–70, 71, 72, 76, 92–3, 102, 107, 111,
119, 132, 138, 143, 155, 167, 175
printing, 92–9, 150–4
print runs, 12–4, 65, 151–4
Pritchard, Charles, 45
Privat Deschanel, Augustin, 38, 39, 41, 104,
111, 157, 181, 184, 185, 186, 203, 205
publishers, 5–6, 8, 9, 11,16, 23, 24–5, 28,
35–43, 48–55, 67, 70, 72, 76, 77, 78, 80,
82, 87, 89, 90, 92, 94, 95–98, 101, 108,
135–47, 149–51, 154–5, 157, 159, 165,
166, 169, 171, 172, 183, 215
Queenwood College, 45, 77, 78, 80,
Quesneville, Gustave-Augustin, 58, 172, 177
Regnault, Victor, 88, 123–7, 160,164, 307
revolutions, 3, 15
Rigg, Arthut, 45
Rodwell, George, 49, 161, 181, 185
Roscoe, Henry, 52
Rossel, Bella, 177–8
Royal College of Surgeons, 141
Royal Institution, 49, 51–2, 79, 84, 164,
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 46, 77,
79, 82, 84–6, 157, 162, 184
Royal Military College, Woolwich, 47, 184
Royal Polytechnic Institution, 53, 189
Royal Society, 51, 87, 141
rue, Thomas de la, 154
Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel, 75, 131, 190,
200
Sainte-Claire Deville, Henri, 33, 39, 76, 164
Science and Art Department, 25, 42–3,
45–7, 51–5, 84, 155, 157, 165, 172, 182
Secchi, Angelo, 76, 200
Secord, James, 7, 16, 17
Séguin, Marc, 114
Skoda, Joseph, 202
Snowball, John Charles, 53
Société de Physique, 39, 75, 76
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Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowl-
edge, 40, 49, 102
Spain, 82, 136, 143
STEP (Science and Technology in the Euro-
pean Periphery), 6
stenography, 36
stereotyping, 72, 93–4, 96, 102, 131, 146,
151–3, 155, 160, 166, 169–70, 204, 215,
217
Stewart, Balfour, 51–2, 161, 182, 184,
Strasbourg, 135, 138, 175–7, 180
Strindberg, August, 191–2
Swinton, Alan Campbell, 204
Symmer, Robert, 128–9, 168
Tait, Peter Guthrie, 161, 185–6, 197, 206
Talbot, Henry Fox, 142
Tannery, Paul, 178
Taylor, Walton & Maberly, 49, 146, 155
teleology, 4, 19
unification, 3–5, 18–19, 21, 109, 159, 168,
213
Veau-Delaunay, Claude, 75
Verdet, Émile, 113–4, 116
Verne, Jules, 12
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation,
14, 16
Vieweg und Sohn, 144
visual knowledge, 62, 71–3, 92, 100–8, 115,
123, 125, 131, 149, 160, 177, 194, 199,
201, 206–8, 210, 214–15
Walker, Robert, 46
Wallace, Alfred Russell, 206
Walmsley, Robert Mullineux, 60
Warwick, Andrew, 16–17, 20
Watts, Henry, 79, 87
Wedgwood, Josiah, 124
Weinhold, Adolf Ferdinand, 155

Copyright
textbooks, 15–18 Weisbach, Julius, 144
Thénard, Louis-Jacques, 31, 62 Weller, Edward, 155
Thompson, Charles, 101 Wellington College, 46
Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, 45, 183, 186 Wheatstone, Charles, 58, 130, 167
Thomson, James, 164 Wieneser et Cie., 95–6
Thomson, William, 15, 18, 19, 160, 161, Willasey, James, 77
164, 168, 185, 197, 198, 203, 206–8 Wood, William, 151
Thornthwaite, William Henry, 142, 206, Wormell, Richard, 53–4, 145, 146
208 Writing, 1, 3, 9, 15, 28, 33–4, 36–8, 40,
Todhunter, Isaac, 53 42, 47, 48–51, 54–5, 57–8, 61–2, 65,
Toulouse, 39, 135 68, 69–76, 77, 82–6, 87, 88, 90, 113,
transmission and reception model, 6, 7 114–15, 123, 128, 130, 133, 147, 152,
Treuttel & Wurtz, 138 158–9, 161, 163–4, 169, 187, 188–91,
Troost, Louis-Joseph, 164 215–7
Turgenev, Ivan, 191–2 Wüllner, Adolf, 88
Twisden, John Francis, 84, 162–3 Würtz, Adolphe, 76, 78
Tyndall, John, 45, 47, 51–3, 76–80, 82, 84,
Young, Thomas, 114, 126
87, 126, 146, 156, 164, 165, 182, 184, 197

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